Monday Quiz Challenge | Spelling Edition
2009 July 6
Each week, Talk Wordy to Me challenges readers to beat the word nerd in a quiz challenge and post their scores in the comments.
This week, a from businesswriting.com:
The 25 Most Commonly Misspelled Words is a list that has circulated among American businesses for decades. Two words have variant spellings for companies using British English spelling. Those two words are repeated at the end of the list of 25 words asking for the British spellings.
Here’s the quiz. I got 20 out of 27.
Nice! 23/27 here. I’ve been misspelling indispensable for a long time . . .
Good quiz. 25/27. Indispensable and harass got me.
21/27. Ack, I always misspell occurrence.
24/27. My excuse is that I’m British and 90% of those questions asked about American English.